Perfect apartment for young people.
We phoned the owner and all was ok, he was nice. There were no troubles in the entrance, and also in the departure.
The apartment is perfect for someone who only is going to sleep, is near Sagrada Familia, and 5 minutes walk from a subway station.
You can go also walking to the beach in 20 minutes.
In spite of the other comments, we decided to take this apartment and we have enjoyed Barcelona.

Don't book this apartment. The location is ideal, but the rest bad. We spend several emails and phone calls to reach the owner. Finally we got a mobile number and agreed we would call him upon arrival at the airport. During the day we kept the owner informed and called him in the taxi. At the apartment there was nobody and our calls where not answered. We waited for 45 minutes with 3 little children in the middle of the night and decided to book a hotel, when a lady arrived with a key. She was not the owner and could not answer all our questions.

The good:
-Mike was nice.
-The flat is in the center of Barcelona
The bad:
-The attention was terrible, to the point that we were at the door of the apartment without even being able to contact them, without knowing anything about what the flat was.
-We had to pay taxes that we were not informed at.
-The flat wasn’t really cleaned, just those things you see, but what was not seen was full of dust.
-The floor is for eight people, but there are only 4 glasses.
-The shower is terrible, it's broken, you shower splashing water and it's uncomfortable.
-There was not even a light in the living room or one of the bedrooms.
-The kitchen is awfully old.
-Two of the rooms are small to the point that sometimes it is difficult to get into them.
-They tried to blackmail me with the time of departure, because having previously agreed that hour by private, when I called them I was told to put a good comment if I wanted to go out by that time or I had to leave earlier
I honestly would not recommend this accommodation... I was so disconform with the treatment received, the informality and the fact of meeting us at the door without being able to contact them, having to ask the neighbors about the apartment made me very angry, and the awfuest thing was the blackmail. I’m so sorry, but I will not lie to other people.

The good:
- Mike gave us a warm welcoming and was nice and kind.
- The location is pretty good, close to the center but far enough to avoid noises of people partying.

The bad:
- Mike gave us only one key. We were 5 people, having different agendas. The apartment fits up to 8 people, so it's a big problem to have only one key when there are many people wanting to come back to the place at different moments.
- The toilet was dirty. It seems that they forgot to rise the cover to clean bellow it... Besides that, the bin for the sanitary napkins (towels) and so on, didn't have a plastic bag. It was a good thing that my girlfriend didn't have the period... Apart from these details, the bathroom in general was pretty "uncomfortable", so to say; old, walls in bad conditions, dark, no mat for the shower, an old shower pipe hanging for no reason...
- There were no top sheets in the beds. The bottom ones were covering some disgusting mattress pads, and the lack of the top sheets was really surprising. We had to cover directly with the blankets, which were (in addition) quite fine (luckily it wasn't cold). I don't want to find out how many people has covered with those blankets before us. I've never seen nothing like that in "developed" countries, and I've traveled a lot. Even in India I've had better "linen conditions"...
- There is a single socket in the kitchen which has to be used both for the kitchen appliances and for the external socket by changing one cable, and when you do that, you find out that the socket is broken and even in danger of shorcircuit or something dangerous like that.
- There are only four cups and a single plastic glass, despite the house is up to 8 guests.
- The door of one of the rooms is broken, no possible to close it.
- We had to pay an extra euro for each towel.
- There wasn't any bin in the apartment to throw the garbage. (apart from the little one I mentioned inside the bathroom).

So, I don't understand how come the owner doesn't pay attention to all these details, which don't involve too much money to make the guests feel comfortable. I wouldn't repeat the stay. If you're a group of 8 people, you bring your own sleeping bag, you don't care too much about dirtiness, and you only want to have a shelter to spend the night, then this is your place. Otherwise, try to find another one.